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The Angry Birds Movie Cert U
AFTER plundering plays, books, games and toys for inspiration, Hollywood has finally gone the whole hog and made a film based on a smartphone app.
And though The Lego Movie is a great example of how unpromising material can inspire awesome me cinema, this animated effortt featuring birds fighting pigs never gets off the ground.
It’s bright, colourful, busy and noisy but far less fun than the game ever was.
Scenes eke out their jokes kes with violent slapstick for the little ones and sneering sarcasm for the teens. Plus there is snot, wee, a lot of wriggling bums and a bizarre singing cowboy sequence.
Jason Sudeikis voices the charmless Red, a lonely bird who gets angry when his feathers are ruffled. He lives in a colony of cute flightless bi birds on a tropical island. After a disastrous a attempt at delivering a b birthday cake, Red is sent t to anger management class. (Because kids always find ther therapy jokes hilarious.) O One day a ship arrives with a crew of green pigs offering the trotter of friendship. Red is given the bird by his compatriots when he questions the pigs’ motives. But he is proved right when the porkers kidnap all the islands’ precious unhatched eggs. The swines. So Red has to hatch a plan to save the eggs without making a pig’s ear of it and before their goose is cooked.
The soft-boiled script relies heavily on crash-bash action and a scrambled mix of rap, rock and disco to capture the absurdity of the source material.
But it all feels underdeveloped, presumably a consequence of trying to rush the movie into cinemas before everyone moves on to the next musthave gaming app. Oh dear.
These pigging awful birds will make you Angry.